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Paper 6

The Eternal Son

Divine Counselor

4. Attributes of the Eternal Son

6:4.1The Eter­nal Son mo­ti­vates the spirit level of cos­mic re­al­ity; the spir­i­tual power of the Son is ab­so­lute in re­la­tion to all uni­verse ac­tu­al­i­ties. He ex­er­cises per­fect con­trol over the in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of all un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated spirit en­ergy and over all ac­tu­al­ized spirit re­al­ity through his ab­so­lute grasp of spirit grav­ity. All pure un­frag­mented spirit and all spir­i­tual be­ings and val­ues are re­spon­sive to the in­fi­nite draw­ing power of the pri­mal Son of Par­a­dise. And if the eter­nal fu­ture should wit­ness the ap­pear­ance of an un­lim­ited uni­verse, the spirit grav­ity and the spirit power of the Orig­i­nal Son will be found wholly ad­e­quate for the spir­i­tual con­trol and ef­fec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of such a bound­less cre­ation.

6:4.2The Son is om­nipo­tent only in the spir­i­tual realm. In the eter­nal econ­omy of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, waste­ful and need­less rep­e­ti­tion of func­tion is never en­coun­tered; the De­i­ties are not given to use­less du­pli­ca­tion of uni­verse min­istry.

6:4.3The om­nipres­ence of the Orig­i­nal Son con­sti­tutes the spir­i­tual unity of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The spir­i­tual co­he­sion of all cre­ation rests upon the ev­ery­where ac­tive pres­ence of the di­vine spirit of the Eter­nal Son. When we con­ceive of the Fa­ther’s spir­i­tual pres­ence, we find it dif­fi­cult to dif­fer­en­ti­ate it in our think­ing from the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son. The spirit of the Fa­ther is eter­nally res­i­dent in the spirit of the Son.

6:4.4The Fa­ther must be spir­i­tu­ally om­ni­pres­ent, but such om­nipres­ence ap­pears to be in­sep­a­ra­ble from the ev­ery­where spirit ac­tiv­i­ties of the Eter­nal Son. We do, how­ever, be­lieve that in all sit­u­a­tions of Fa­ther-Son pres­ence of a dual spir­i­tual na­ture the spirit of the Son is co-or­di­nate with the spirit of the Fa­ther.

6:4.5In his con­tact with per­son­al­ity, the Fa­ther acts in the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. In his per­sonal and de­tectable con­tact with spir­i­tual cre­ation, he ap­pears in the frag­ments of the to­tal­ity of his De­ity, and these Fa­ther frag­ments have a soli­tary, unique, and ex­clu­sive func­tion wher­ever and when­ever they ap­pear in the uni­verses. In all such sit­u­a­tions the spirit of the Son is co-or­di­nate with the spir­i­tual func­tion of the frag­mented pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

6:4.6Spir­i­tu­ally the Eter­nal Son is om­ni­pres­ent. The spirit of the Eter­nal Son is most cer­tainly with you and around you, but not within you and a part of you like the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor. The in­dwelling Fa­ther frag­ment ad­justs the hu­man mind to pro­gres­sively di­vine at­ti­tudes, where­upon such an as­cend­ing mind be­comes in­creas­ingly re­spon­sive to the spir­i­tual draw­ing power of the all-pow­er­ful spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter.

6:4.7The Orig­i­nal Son is uni­ver­sally and spir­i­tu­ally self-con­scious. In wis­dom the Son is the full equal of the Fa­ther. In the realms of knowl­edge, om­ni­science, we can­not dis­tin­guish be­tween the First and Sec­ond Sources; like the Fa­ther, the Son knows all; he is never sur­prised by any uni­verse event; he com­pre­hends the end from the be­gin­ning.

6:4.8The Fa­ther and the Son re­ally know the num­ber and where­abouts of all the spir­its and spir­i­tu­al­ized be­ings in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Not only does the Son know all things by virtue of his own om­ni­pres­ent spirit, but the Son, equally with the Fa­ther and the Con­joint Ac­tor, is fully cog­nizant of the vast re­flec­tiv­ity in­tel­li­gence of the Su­preme Be­ing, which in­tel­li­gence is at all times aware of all things that tran­spire on all the worlds of the seven super­uni­verses. And there are other ways in which the Par­a­dise Son is om­ni­scient.

6:4.9The Eter­nal Son, as a lov­ing, mer­ci­ful, and min­is­ter­ing spir­i­tual per­son­al­ity, is wholly and in­finitely equal with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, while in all those mer­ci­ful and af­fec­tion­ate per­sonal con­tacts with the as­cen­dant be­ings of the lower realms the Eter­nal Son is just as kind and con­sid­er­ate, just as pa­tient and long-suf­fer­ing, as are his Par­a­dise Sons in the lo­cal uni­verses who so fre­quently be­stow them­selves upon the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time.

6:4.10It is need­less fur­ther to ex­pa­ti­ate on the at­tri­butes of the Eter­nal Son. With the ex­cep­tions noted, it is only nec­es­sary to study the spir­i­tual at­tri­butes of God the Fa­ther to un­der­stand and cor­rectly eval­u­ate the at­tri­butes of God the Son.